Lydia Millet

"An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, inter-generational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel -- her first since the National Book Award Longlist SweetLamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator, Eve, and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who...

In a world plagued by global warming and controlled by pharmaceutical corporations, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam uncover government secrets as they race to protect their family and forge their own path to hope.